Welcome to another edition of the Monday Mix, where we focus on headlines and insights you might have missed from the weekend and late in the week.

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Three weekend reads

1. "Well, we were at an all-night prayer meeting during the trial and we got home and we fell asleep. We were up all night. Praise God! I’m so excited! Oh that’s wonderful! Thank you so much for letting us know. We’re so happy.”

How did the parents of a U.S. pastor imprisoned in Turkey for nearly two years react upon learning the news of his release?

2. "It’s pretty much obvious that the Catholic Church cannot be trusted to police themselves." On Sunday’s front page, the Dallas Morning News followed up on last week’s announcement that all 15 Roman Catholic dioceses in Texas will release names of clergy who have been “credibly accused” of sexual abuse of children since 1950.

The Dallas newspaper delved into — as the headline on the online version of the story puts it — “6 things to know about Texas Catholic dioceses' sex abuse inquiry.”

Among the key questions highlighted:

What does “credibly accused” mean?

3. “If Moses couldn’t get into the promised land for striking a rock, they shouldn’t be in a pulpit. There needs to be some standards in the faith community.”Should churches allow convicted sex offenders to preach?

But according to the national newspaper, this ruling is bigger than just one state:

Legal scholars, however, see this as the latest step toward the continued abolition of the punishment, its death knell, so to speak, and believe Washington’s move toward commuting death sentences to life in prison will become more the rule than the exception across the United States.

“It is part of a very clear trend over the last 10 years of states abolishing the death penalty, either through their legislature, like in New Jersey, or through their courts, like in Washington, New York and some of the other states,’’ said Ellen Kreitzberg, a Santa Clara University law professor who has written extensively about capital punishment.

(RNS) — A New York City grand jury has indicted Christian Media Corp., the publisher of evangelical news website The Christian Post, and William Anderson, its former chief executive, on financial fraud charges, along with Etienne Uzac, who ran Newsweek magazine’s parent company.

The allegations center on more than $10 million in loans to buy computer equipment, but the proceeds were actually used to keep Newsweek magazine, owned by a related firm, operating, according to an indictment unsealed this week.

Some of those funds were funneled to The Christian Post’s parent firm, the indictment alleges.

In case you missed it

6. Here are two GetReligion posts that you might have missed over the weekend: